Empire Map

[Hollerbach]

Hmm, the 'scholar' looks very much like the scientist 'great person' from CivIV. Actually a lot of ETW is reminiscant of CivIV (the diplomacy sound very CivIV like for instance, and the tech tree sounds very Civ), and the battle interface looks to have picked up the best parts of Sid Meiers 'Civil War' games (button for advance and withdraw, left wheel right wheel etc). Not that this is a bad thing, these are all great improvements!

Thanks for the info Beane, will be interesting to see how this plays out. btw looking at the first pic in the previous post it looks like in fact India is made of many small territories? Maybe the lines of the mini map don't mean what they did in the past?

Edit: Okay, so a bazillion posts came in while I was typing, I was referring to post #13 when I said 'in the last post'. However, if gentlemen spawn at a rate influence by buildings and upgrades then they sound even more like the 'great people' from CivIV. As I say though, I don't consider this heinous plagarism, games should adapt and evolve picking the best bits out of other successful games.